Throughout the years, the Alzheimer’s Association has united
experts worldwide to present the latest information in dementia care practices
to professionals, family members and persons living with the disease in
Connecticut and surrounding states. Join us as we reflect on past
accomplishments, integrate the present and envision a future of a world without
Alzheimer’s disease.

KEYNOTE:

Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Enduring Selfhood
and Being Open to Surprises

Over the past twenty years, caregivers, professionals, and those
affected by Alzheimer’s disease have hoped that medical science might provide a
treatment that can prevent, stabilize or even cure this progressive and
intractable disease; this treatment has proven highly elusive. Yet there have
been major breakthroughs in forms of care that awaken expressions of continuing
self-identity even in the most deeply forgetful loved ones, and these give us
meaning and hope as caregivers.

Presented by: Stephen G. Post, PhD

Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and
Bioethics Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at Stony
Brook University